"Oblivious cake" What Sten meant when he said "There is no cake. The cake is a lie." And yes I know that's originally from Bioshock (I think :P) but I'm a Dragon Age fan. Anywho I think that crazy blob is supposed to be "And you can win $2000 dollars" But that's just a guess.

My first guess was squished cowboy boot, but that doesn't make any sense. The $2.00, $20.00, $2000 ambiguity is so people will THINK it is $2000 and then they draw the winner and announce it really says $2.00.

I believe Chocolate Oblivious cake should be Chocolate Oblivion. That is slightly less lethal than Death By Chocolate Cake. The 3-inch size is to keep some of us from eating large amounts in one sitting.

I wish someone could cast obliviate on the oblivious cake. Also, the cookie seems to be offering a 2000 bill, which could refer to a made up piece of money, you owing them money, or an ex-president. The mind boggles.

I think the cookie blob is a badly drawn money bag. The blob itself is the bag, the butterfly body/hat brim thingy is the tie, and the wings/hat thingy is the gathered part of the bag. Fits with the ambiguous give-away context.

The "chocolate oblivious" (great name, actually) cake came from the Ben Lomond Market in Scotts Valley, California. Notice that the name of the town should be "Scotts Valley", not "Scott's Valley". Incorrect cake nomenclature AND incorrect punctuation, double score!

"Combine bananas and marshmallows. If you don't have bananas, you can use plantains. If you don't have those either, just use whatever you do have. But you have to use marshmallows -- the bigger, the better.

If you knew the Ben Lomand area of Scotts Valley, it would be all very clear. The old hippies that live there are well... are somewhat... And, don't ask what is in the chocolate. Thanks again, CW. I love you. Norine

In defense of the "Home Made" banana bread, you can see that the ingredients are just "sugar, flour, banana, egg, butter." So perhaps it is like banana bread Mom would make...just not well packaged. Also, I think the "gooey ooze" is just batter that dripped on the edge before baking.

The "in bold letters" is hilarious! I guess they are hiring cake wreckers to type nutrition labels now?

I also think the butterfly blob on the very-poorly-written-on cookie is a hat of some sort--but if it IS a leprechaun hat, what have they done with him? Just his hat and a really ugly bag? (And it looks like you can win "2,000 down" to me--I have bought too many cars in my life, I guess.)

It really did take me a while to think about why thongs OR thong's were OR was being discussed. Who could think that there was an H anywhere in the word? My mental picture kept flickering back and forth between the shoes and the underwear--not pretty in any case.

Not sure why, but on the cookie cake I'm seeing a pot of gold (the brown/black blob) with a leprechaun hat on top (the "butterfly")... see it? No? Oh well. Loved the post today, anyway. My thongs' Thank Yous are VERY usable :)

I'm not sure what it says about my mental state, but I thought it was fairly obvious that the brown cookie blob was a money bag, the kind that cartoon bank robbers would gleefully abscond with. I thought the caption was just a joke, because while it was poorly drawn, it was obviously a money bag.

Then I read the comments and discovered I must have the brain of a wreckerator, because it was most decidedly not obvious to the population at large that it was a money bag.

I think the blob on top of the $ is actually supposed to be the top of a money bag. But, if they colored (frosted) it, they would lose all manner of detail. And we can see how important details are to this particular wrecker.

Totally loved the "give it a minute" because I had to do just that. Do you have a tiny camera inside your computer that allows you to see just how we will react? Hysterical!!!

Thank you! There's nothing more that I hate than the wrong use of apostrophes (they don't indicate plurals, people, they mean possession!), except possibly for spelling "tongs" as "thongs" (yecch, that image). And don't you love that no one knows simple definitions anymore? Y shd we? No 1 cares anymr.

The butterfly/cookie thing is a moneybag. See the strap around the top and the moth-eaten edges to the bag. Unfortunately, they didn't color the top of the bag the same as they did the bulk of the bag.

The "Tell us how we're doing" cookie is at Paradise Bakery in the C Terminal at Denver's airport.. I did submit that one a while back, actually hated to do it since I just LOVE Paradise Bakery, but just couldn't believe that they had that cookie sitting there in all of its inglorious misery. :)

Oh my, but that last one REALLY got me. (Especially since I sing in the church choir and am forever mis-singing "throng" - which is in lots of Easter songs - as "thong". Now I'll really laugh when I screw that up next time.)

And my guess in the "how we are doing" cake is a turkey. What do I win?

The blob is obviously a REALLY BIG snail poop. With the snail it came from on top.

(On first glance I sort of conflated it with the Maria's Laundromat pic, and thus saw a thing that maybe could have been a Maria-like cartoony person -- the blob is her skirt, the snail head is an outstretched arm, her face is above it -- with a chip for an eye no less! -- and she's wearing a hat, and the two things that I eventually realized were part of the stand are feet. She is, idk, dancing, and obviously very pregnant to boot.)

...and obviously the yellow illegible writing stuff is actually "$2,000 bill", in that they charge you $2k to tell them how they're doing. It's a fundraiser, you see.

You know, I have the origin story of "The Cake is a Lie." It's not from a movie. It's not really suitable to write here, except, maybe, with those, uh, "rocket," cakes. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2718293/phrase_origins_the_cake_is_a_lie.html?cat=7

hmmm....thong's thank you. Not sure how I would actually use that, but I know if I have the opportunity to use it, then my working out and dieting has finally made my hiney so perfect that my panties thank me for wearing them! :D

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